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Pat Vonderfecht's fight against breast cancer a story that is part of the Dig Pink volleyball game

Submitted by admin on Wed, 10/16/2013 - 4:36pm

By Ray Kappel.

For Pat Vonderfecht it began as an ache in a breast. It would begin as her journey through the world of breast cancer. Last Thursday, the Pawnee City High School held their Dig Pink volleyball game, a triangular with HTRS and Diller/Odell. Dig Pink is a night set aside each year to commemorate the fight of millions to survive breast cancer, for one thing just making people aware. The event raised $652 to be donated to the Southeast Nebraska Cancer Foundation. The money will be used for patients from Pawnee and Richardson counties. Vonderfecht felt a lump in the ache, told her husband, Pete, and then scheduled a mammogram in Pawnee City. Dr. Rick Jackson was her doctor. He sent her to Advanced Medical Images in Lincoln for a biopsy. They told her it was cancer.